Here are some highlights from political science professor Brendan Doherty’s research on President Obama’s 127 fundraisers, reported by USA Today:

-- “By comparison, President George W. Bush had held 88 fundraisers and President Clinton, 76, at this point in their first terms.”

--“ While Obama hit the road to raise money for endangered House and Senate Democrats in 2010 congressional elections, he has appeared at 37 fundraisers this year to benefit his own campaign, according to Doherty's tally. That's more than three times the 11 fundraisers George W. Bush held for his own campaign at this point in his first term.”

-- “Not surprisingly, Obama's most popular fundraising destination is close to the office. He's attended 19 events in Washington, D.C., since taking up residence at the White House, Doherty's data show. Donor-rich California, a Democratic stronghold in presidential elections, was second with 18.”

The statistics are likely to serve as another reference for Republicans who have tried to label Obama the “campaigner-in-chief” instead of a president focused on healing the economy.

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Well, come on - we all know that campaigning is all he's really good at. This guy has no ideas of his own. He said he has a plan for jobs, but he can't tell us until September. I'm sure he has behind-the-scenes guys making stuff up right now.

Looks to me like obumblers new jobs plan is to give jobs to illegals through "work" visas.

How come when the tea party rallies the leftist, progressive, dimwitocrats scream, whine, rail and shake, but when the illegals stop traffic (as they did in Chicago yesterday) in protest, or march and carry mexican flags and promise violence and say racist things against white America, obum and his leftie minions give them work visas and no deportations and in doing so encourage more illegals to come creating more of a burden on the tax paying citizens of the United States.

And not to mention the parties at the White House that have cost we the tax payers over 20 million and his 80 times golfing at 6 hours each that would equal = 60 days total, that is two months for you smart liberals.

Once again the knot heads come out crying. The Republicans are running across the country campaigning, yet offering no solutions as well, but you whine about the president campaigning for the same job. Get a life. Politicians campaign, thats exactly what your Tea Party knucke heads are doing.

Once again the knot heads come out crying. The Republicans are running across the country campaigning, yet offering no solutions as well, but you whine about the president campaigning for the same job. Get a life. Politicians campaign, thats exactly what your Tea Party knucke heads are doing.

Yah, but the Republicans aren't using my tax dollars to buy buses from Canada, or gas up those buses and helicopters and SUVs or pay for food and lodging for the support entourage accompanying obama. Sure politicians campaign, but your are the "knucke head" for not knowing the difference.

In fact, out of the 13 items for sale, seven are Obama-related, in addition to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s memoir, “True Compass.” The only CBS-related item is a DVD copy of “60 Minutes Presents — Obama: All Access – The Road to the White House.”

There is so much merchandise that a side bar on the site even has a separate “Barack Obama” tab for quick browsing.

All of this raises a simple question: Why is CBS selling it?

A note at the bottom of the site says the merchandise has “national importance:”

CBS News t-shirts and CBS News hoodies will show you’re a true newshound. And don’t forget all the latest DVDs and books with historical significance. Choose from 60 Minutes Barack Obama DVDs, Barack Obama books and other timely tales with national importance.

Again, in addition to the five Obama books, the only other “timely tale” is Kennedy’s memoir.

When The Blaze reached out to CBS for comment, no one initially knew who was in charge of the store, or indeed, that one existed. One woman even asked, “There’s a CBS News online store?”

After several hours being bounced around through various departments, CBS directed The Blaze to a spokesman for CBS Interactive, the arm that manages the network’s online content.

So what’s the reason for the items?

In a statement, the spokesman said the merchandise posted for sale was a mistake by the store’s third-party provider and would be taken down:

“It has come to our attention that merchandise unrelated to CBS News was inadvertently made available by our third-party provider on the webpage that is located in the CBS Interactive online store. The items will be removed. We’d like to thank The Blaze for their vigilance in this important matter.”

Important, indeed.

*UPDATE: Minutes after publication, CBS removed the items from the website. Note that “Change We Can Believe In” is still visible in the lower-left corner under “recently viewed.”

*UPDATE II: The merchandise is still visible if you type “obama” into the search bar.

"""Just another example of Leftist Media at work! These scumbags (Leftist Media) don't even attempt to hide it anymore. I'm sure you all remember politico having a Hussein Political Advertisement displayed proudly on this website when the clown was running for the current office he's now squatting in?"""

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This isn't really surprising. He is the most political person to ever serve as President. He trawls for donations in DC and California - two places that are (for the most part with the exception of some of SoCal and most of NorCal) so far removed from reality it's not even funny. I know Obama has never worked a real day in his life but he doesn't even venture in to speak with the "little" people. He'll have plenty of time for fundraisers after we vote him out in 2012.

So how about kicking some of that fundraising cash back toward the federal debt President Downgrade? May be you could single handily get our AAA+ rating back, instead of just thrashing the securities markets, and threatening us with more taxes. Or is it all for your golden parachute?

he is fundraising while the black hoodlum flash mob are robbing stores and people. They are all the same, made from the same cloth. Nobody wants to work, they have been given and given, from the grandparents to parents and now to these vermin's. If they are sooooooo poor where do they get the cell phones??? Another government handout?

Poor Michelle who had only taken 40+ days of vacation couldn't wait 3 hours to fly to the Hamptons with Obamasan. Only an additional $75,000 but who is counting. It certainly is not the First Spenders!!